Who is Ritu Khanduri Bhushan, Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly's first woman speaker?

New Delhi: Ritu Khanduri Bhushan was on Saturday (March 26, 2022) elected as the speaker of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. Daughter of former Uttarakhand chief minister Major General Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri, Ritu Khanduri Bhushan has now become the first woman Speaker of the state assembly.

In the recently concluded Uttarakhand Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader had avenged her father's humiliation in Kotdwar and defeated Congress' Surendra Singh Negi by 3,687 votes.

आज उत्तराखंड विधानसभा देहरादून में दूसरी बार विधायक के रूप में पद एवं गोपनीयता की शपथ ली।

कोटद्वार की प्रबुद्ध जनता का सह्रदय धन्यवाद एवं आभार। @BJP4UK #kotdwara #uttarakhand #BJPGovt pic.twitter.com/G1ZHVYyE7v — Ritu Khanduri Bhushan (@RituKhanduriBJP) March 21, 2022

41 कोटद्वार विधानसभा 2022 के चुनाव में विजय के उपरांत, प्रमाणपत्र प्राप्त हुआ।
⁦@BJP4UK⁩ ⁦@BJPMahilaMorcha⁩ pic.twitter.com/PaRnO0KkVL — Ritu Khanduri Bhushan (@RituKhanduriBJP) March 11, 2022

Khanduri had won her first Assembly election from Yamkeshwar in 2017 and is also the state BJP Mahila Morcha president.

Khanduri was a former teacher at Amity University in Noida. She is married to IAS officer Rajesh Bhushan, who is the current Union Health Secretary.

(With agency inputs)

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